Kathryn Hartgrove has been described as a mezzo-soprano of precision, range and sheer splendor and has been heard throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Her many roles have included Judith in Bluebeard‘s Castle, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, Thisbe in La Cenerentola, Siebel in Faust, Emilia in Otello and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with such companies as Lyric Opera of Kansas City, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera’s National Tour, Chicago Opera Theater, Lodz National Opera of Poland, Chamber Opera of Chicago, Piedmont Opera Theater and Opera Maine. She has performed as Soloist with the Istanbul National Symphony, the Grant Park Symphony, the Hinsdale Chamber Orchestra, the Lake Shore Symphony, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony and the Beloit-Janesville Symphony. She has performed solo recitals in Peru, Brazil, France, Italy, and has been heard on radio and television in Brazil, Turkey and the United States. Her most recent engagements include performances in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Bauru and Campinas, Rimini, Italy and in a dedication Gala Concert in Novafeltria, Italy. She has performed with the Trujillo Bach Festival in Trujillo, Peru, and for the Atelier Concert Series in Paris, France. Her most recent performance was Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire for the famed International Dimitira Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece and the Pergolesi Stabat Mater with the Orchestra di Ravenna in Italy.
Her upcoming engagements include a concert celebrating Chopin’s 200th year of his birth in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland and recitals in Uberlãndia, Bauru and Campinas, Brazil.
In addition to her career as a performer, Ms. Hartgrove is an active stage director and master class technician. In 2008, she was stage director for the Boston Collaborative, the Milwaukee Opera Theater, and UNICAMP in Campinas, Brazil. Ms. Hartgrove returned to Milwaukee Opera Theater in 2009, to stage Seymour Barab’s Pizza con Funghi. She is slated to stage Gianni Schicchi in Campinas. As a master class clinician she has been invited to such artistic centers as Afytos, Greece; Campinas, Brazil; Trujillo, Peru and Novafeltria, Italy. She has conducted master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the United States.
Ms. Hartgrove received her Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and continued her study at Northwestern University. She has participated in Master classes with Regine Crespin, Kurt Herbert Adler, Martin Katz, Boris Goldovsky and Brigitte Fassbender, and has gone on the work professionally with many of North America’s finest stage directors and conductors.
Mrs. Hartgrove is the co-founder and Artistic Director of La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria and is one of the festival’s coordinators and voice teachers during the five-week residency in Italy. She is also one of the founders and Artistic Directors of the Bauru Atlanta Competition for Voice and Piano. The competition celebrates its third annual competition in Bauru, Brazil in August of 2010. Ms. Hartgrove is currently an Assistant Professor of Voice at Georgia State University. She maintains a private studio in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
E-mail: KathrynHartgrove@yahoo.com